User:Simon/Trim4/prototypes/flashing an SD card

The bootleg library runs on a Raspberry Pi (RPi) single-board computer. The operating system of the RPi is stored on an SD card, that must be "flashed" with an "image" of the operating system in order to boot the computer.

There are various distributions you can choose from, depending on how you want to use the computer. This page from the Raspberry Pi documentation gives a good guide on how to install an operating system image on an SD card using Raspberry Pi Imager, or manually. For the bootleg library, I initially installed Buster-lite, and then eventually switched to a plain-text environment because it was lighter.

I used software called balena etcher, but you can also attempt to install a distribution using the dreaded dd command to convert and copy the exact image on to the SD card. dd is sometimes referred to as the "disk destroyer", so use with caution.